Earlier text: A QUESTION ON IMMORTALITYTHE HABITS OF ANTS.
By G. A. Hirn
ALTHOUGH the following fact relative to the habits of ants is well known, I have never seen it described with the marked characters and in the clearly defined form in which I have just observed it. I think it will interest the readers of this journal. Saturday, July 14, 1888, while the sun was shining brightly, I was walking on a road running north and south, and which, at a point that I had reached, skirted a garden wall. I soon observed at my left, toward the wall, a whole legion of brown ants of quite a large size that were moving with a quickened pace, and in good order, in the same direction. The column was about eight inches in width and nearly sixteen feet in length. It started from a piece of ground a little higher than the roadway and covered with grass and weeds. From this it descended by a foot-path inclined more than forty-five degrees, at the center of which it turned abruptly at right angles in order to follow the road. I quickened my pace and reached the head of the column, which was very sharply defined, and followed it attentively in order to see what could be the object of the expedition, for it was clear that it was a question of the carrying out of a well-determined plan. I had already remarked with surprise that, during the march of this army, several ants, seeming to have changed their mind, were retracing their steps and traversing all the ranks; but I soon saw them turn about again, after advising with some of their companions which they had sought. Having reached the large garden gate, the head of the column stopped, and all the new-comers grouped themselves in a circle of wide diameter. It was evident that the ants had united in a council of war, and that they were debating upon some plan of prudence to follow. The circle, in fact, soon opened, and the ants began to pass under the leaves of the gate, no longer in a serried column, but scattered over a wide space, and walking more slowly and with deliberation. I saw them move in the direction of a grass plat, and here I lost sight of them. I was feverish that day, and out of humor, and I walked along gloomily, thinking of what I had just observed. I thought it was some unfortunate colony that had exiled itself from its domicile in order to seek more propitious skies. I was thoroughly deceived. I had just witnessed a premeditated pillaging expedition. Returning by the same route in the course of half an hour, I saw my ants triumphantly starting for home, each holding in its mandibles a large ant's egg, doubtless of another species. Each was proceeding on its own hook, and endeavoring not to lose its prey. Was it, in fact, prey that they had just sought for their table, by a barbarous refinement of taste? or was it, rather, eggs that they wished to have hatched in their own domiciles in order to convert the young ants into slaves, of which, by a just retribution, they in turn would become the slaves, by losing the habit of working? Was it an odious act of rapine and violence that I had just witnessed, or must we admit that ants thus deprived of their progeniture willingly resign themselves to their fate and are predestined thereto? At all events, the defense, if defense there had been, could not have been very energetic. The pillagers were not pursued, and not a wounded individual appeared among the victors. The first part of the drama had saddened me, but had left me with a false notion; the end saddened me more yet. I consoled myself, however, by saying to myself that if these slave-making ants are not better than their similars among men, they at least understand their true interests better. They do not maltreat their victims very much, since they eventually become the humble vassals of the latter. And then, thought I, too, perhaps the naturalists, who have well observed these captures of one race by another, have not awaited the end. Ants of a large brown species exist that capture eggs, and it must be, then, that either they are not robbed of their entire progeniture, or that the slaves some day or another go back home, dividing in their turn the victors of the day before. Perhaps one of these days I shall see a procession of smaller ants proceeding quietly toward their original abode. Since the epoch in which Descartes, by an inspiration (this time inauspicious) of his genius, tried to reduce animals to the state of machines, and in which Malebranche, his fanatical disciple, carried this idea to the point of extravagance, and since the epoch in which Buffon, in contradiction to his pompous tirades on the qualities of the dog, horse, etc., endeavored to prove that all is instinct and mechanism in the animal, a considerable progress has been made in this line of questions. No more than any astronomer to-day disputes the plurality of the worlds, does any naturalist longer dispute the manifestations (often very elevated) of intelligence, reasoning, and other physical faculties, not in the animal kingdom taken in a lump, as done by many persons in order to deny the fact more easily, but in certain species and certain individuals of such species. Man being considered (by himself, be it understood) as the highest type of animate and living nature, it might be thought that these inferior beings, which, in certain respects, are comparable to him, would be the very ones that, by their organization, resembled him most. Although in fact that is the case, generally speaking, we nevertheless meet with exceptions that seem to us true enigmas. What more different from our own than the organization of an ant? And yet, in the scene that I have described, we find ourselves in the presence of acts in which instinct as a prime mover is no longer merely in the background, and which suppose reasoning, prolonged observation, and means of communication between individuals that no one would have suspected a priori. The two ant-hills that I speak of—those of the pillagers and the pillaged—are very distant from each other, and one of them is in an inclosure. I follow the same path daily, but I never observed ants traversing it before. Instinct may say to the large brown ants that there exist other ants capable of doing what they themselves do not wish and know not how to do; but here the revelations of such instinct stop. In order to satisfy it, the incapable ants must plainly have had explorers to go to a distance to look for a colony of workers, to boldly enter the latter's quarters in order to see when the laying of eggs would take place, and then return home and report the time thereof to their companions. Such information must have been communicated quickly to the entire colony, and the order to move must have been perfectly understood, since the head of the column was advancing in good order and with a quick pace. Moreover, this legion must have had guides that were very sure of their business and of the objective point to be reached. The ants that turned back and quickly traversed all the ranks, to see if everything was proceeding according to rule, probably knew that among their kind, as among our own, intelligence and the sentiment of duty are not the same with all. The council of war held in the circle before the attack of the camp to be pillaged is a proof of a well-reasoned prudence. No unwise head in command said, 'All is ready.' In what precedes, I do not intend to teach the reader anything new. He will find in the well-written work of Brehm some remarkable observations on the habits and aptitudes of ants. The reason that I have entered at some length upon this subject is because I had never seen a succession of acts more varied displayed among these little creatures, and all combining to lead the spectator to the same forced conclusion. To have seen nothing but mechanism and blind instinct in the scene that I witnessed, I should myself have had to be endowed with scarcely anything else than these two motors. The reader will certainly join me in this conclusion.—G. A. Hirn, in La Nature. The Home Circle.
By Joaquin Miller
Is it worth while to jostle a brother
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each other
In blackness of heart—that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife. God pity us all as we jostle each other;
God pardon us all for the triumph we feel
When a fellow goes down 'neath his load on the heather,
Pierced to the heart: words are keener than steel,
And mightier far for woe or for weal. Were it not well in this brief little journey
On over the isthmus, down into the tide,
We give him a fish instead of a serpent,
Ere folding the hands to be and abide
Forever and aye in dust at his side? Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at the herds all in peace on the plain;
Man, and man only, makes war on his brother,
And laughs in his heart at his peril and pain;
Shamed by the hearts that go down on the plain. Is it worth while that we battle to humble
Some poor fellow-soldier down into the dust?
God pity us all! Time oft soon will tumble
All of us together, like leaves in a gust,
Humbled indeed down into the dust.
—Joaquin Miller. The Peril of Telling Lies
By Sunday School Times
TELLING a lie increases a man's peril, in whatever danger he finds himself. So long as a child of God speaks the truth, he can leave the responsibility of his truth-telling with God. But when he departs from the truth, he becomes responsible for all the consequences of his unauthorized course. His only hope then is in the "father of lies," and the devil is not to be trusted in an emergency. —Sunday School Times. APPLICATION has been made by Jos. Elias, formerly Government Engineer of the Lebanon, for a concession for a railway from Haifa, on the Mediterranean, about midway between Tyre and Cæsarea, by way of Lake Galilee, over the river Jordan to Damascus. Authority for the navigation of the lake and a priority of right for the extension of a line over any other applicant for three years is asked for. The line is to follow the river Kishon for six miles, going within three and three-quarters miles of Nazareth, and then ascending the valley to the water-sheds of the Jordan. The line will proceed along the northwest of the lake close to the plain of Genesaret, up the Jordan, crossing it about two miles below Merom. From that point the line turns toward the east to Damascus, a distance of one hundred miles from the coast. A branch line will go to Naova, the capital of the Hauran, with an option to continue on to Bosra, the ancient capital of Bashan. The practical part of Mr. Elias's application is interesting. He estimates the population to be served at 500,000, or about 5,000 to the mile. Damascus has about 200,000 inhabitants, and there are ten towns with from 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants and about 5,040 villages. Although the district is very fertile, only one-sixth of the arable land is under cultivation. There is an abundance of streams, however, so that the country could be easily irrigated.—Scientific American. It is with intense satisfaction that the Evangelist is able to announce that the saloon, which is so often considered an essential accompaniment of what is sometimes called "the march of civilization," will not, for the present at least, find a legal admission into Oklahoma. The new Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. J. W. Mason, has instructed the Collector of Internal Revenue for the district of Kansas, which embraces the new Territory of Oklahoma, to issue no Government stamps to those wishing to engage in the liquor traffic in that Territory, and has positively declared that the Government will not permit the sale of liquor there! He also informs the Collector that arrangements have been made by which he will be furnished with a sufficient force to prevent such sale—an assurance which is confirmed by official letters from the office of the Adjutant-General of the army. This looks as if our Government officials meant business, and will prove very unwelcome intelligence to at least a portion of that peculiar crowd which has just rushed so tumultuously into the new Territory, and whose present limited supplies of liquor must soon be exhausted. It is hoped the Government will give its officers ample means to execute its orders, if such execution requires an army. Paper orders will not do the work.—N. Y. Evangelist. Health and Temperance.
By Christian Worker
THAT was a neat reply the State secretary of Ohio made to the Saloon Keepers' Association, of Hamilton, Ohio, some days ago. This organization had applied for articles of incorporation, and in making the application it stated its object to be "to afford all who may become members proper and legal protection against unjust and oppressive laws, and to aid its members in the defense of their lawful business, and against the unwarranted encroachment of Government, State, or municipal authorities." The secretary refused to issue the articles of incorporation, giving his reasons as follows: "Resistance to law is not a lawful purpose, and it is contrary to public policy to sanction such organizations. You will see in a moment that the State cannot clothe with corporate power an organization having for its avowed object opposition to the execution of the laws of the State." The secretary certainly has good grounds for his refusal. It would be manifestly ridiculous for the State to set its seal upon an association whose avowed purpose is to defy the laws of the State. But there is another ridiculous phase about it which does not belong to the saloon keeper. The State, in consideration of a certain sum of money, pronounces the business of whisky selling lawful, and then proceeds to enact laws which the seller regards as "unjust" and "oppressive." If the business is recognized as lawful, it ought to have all its rights under the law, no more, no less. The wrong consists in recognizing it as lawful. It is the general sentiment of mankind that the liquor traffic is a great evil. The State is in poor business when it legalizes evil. Yet that is exactly what most of the States do.—Christian Worker. Drunkenness and Social Evil
"THERE is not a group or assembly of Anarchists or extreme Socialists in America that does not soak its silly and dangerous resolutions in beer. Nor is there a single revolutionary or communistic assembly of total abstainers. The connection between prostitution and drunkenness is intimate. There is not a brothel conducted on total abstinence principles in the world." PEOPLE who insist on the necessity of providing proper ventilation for dwellings, churches, school-houses, and public halls, are often thought to be little less than fanatics. But here is what some men of science have said with regard to the evil results of breathing vitiated air. "Allowing the fullest effect to all other agencies," says Dr. Parkes, an eminent English authority, "there is no doubt that the breathing of the vitiated atmosphere of respiration has a most injurious effect on the health." "Impure air," says Baudeloque, a French scientist, "is the great cause of consumption." This view is also held by Langenbeck, an eminent anatomist. Dr. Carpenter asserts that it has been proved beyond question "that the fatality of epidemics is almost invariably in precise proportion to the degree in which an impure atmosphere has been habitually aspired." And the New York Board of Health has expressed the opinion that forty per cent. of all deaths are caused by breathing impure air. "Viewing the causes of preventable diseases and their fatal results," the board says, "we unhesitatingly state that the first sanitary want in New York and Brooklyn is ventilation."—N. Y. Examiner. MAJOR HOUSTON, of the marine corps, who is in charge of the Washington Navy Yard barracks, is authority for the statement that one-fifth of all the boys examined are rejected on account of heart disease. His first question to a boy who desires to enlist is, "Do you smoke?" The surgeons say that cigarette smoking by boys produces heart disease, and that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the rejection of would-be apprentices on account of this defect, comes from the excessive use of the milder form of the weed. I wish every boy could read it. I am shocked at the number of young boys I see smoking every time I go out, some of them under twelve years old, and all under sixteen. Boys, what do you smoke for? Do you think it is manly? It is more manly not to smoke. I know a great many gentlemen do smoke but I think not one of them would advise you to do so. But if you must smoke, get a clay pipe and smoke it. It will be much better for your health than those vile cigarettes, and I think it looks quite as well.—Western Watchman. JUDGE GUTHRIE, of Kansas, in instructing a grand jury recently, stated that it was an actual fact that, owing to the prohibitory law of the State, there were boys in Kansas ten and twelve years old who had never even seen a saloon. He said the labors of the State's courts had manifestly decreased since liquor selling was made a crime. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." James 1:5. ONE of the physicians on the spot writes thus to the Medical News of Philadelphia concerning the great disaster at Johnstown:— The mental condition of almost every former resident of Johnstown is one of the gravest character, and the reaction which will set in when the reality of the whole affair is fully comprehended can scarcely fail to produce many cases of permanent or temporary insanity. Most of the faces that one meets, both male and female, are those of the most profound melancholia, associated with an almost absolute disregard for the future. The nervous system shows the strain it has borne by a tremulousness of the hand and of the lip, in man as well as in woman. This nervous state is further evidenced by a peculiar intonation of words, the persons speaking mechanically, while the voices of many rough-looking men are changed into such tremulous notes of so high a pitch as to make one imagine that a child on the verge of tears is speaking. Crying is so rare that your correspondent saw not a tear on any face in Johnstown, but the women that are left are haggard, with pinched features, and heavy, dark lines under the eyes. Indeed, the evidence of systematic disturbance is so marked in almost every individual who was present at the time of the catastrophe, that it is possible with the eye alone to separate the residents from those outside. —Cholera is epidemic at Manilla, Spain. —Jersey City had a $150,000 fire the 18th ult. —Lightning did $6,000,000 worth of damage in New York the 15th ult. —The king of Holland has had a serious relapse from his recent recovery. —President Harrison has refused to wear the badge of the Patriotic Sons of America. —Thirty-one persons were poisoned at Findlay, Ohio, June 22, by eating canned beef. —The largest furniture depot in Europe burned at Paris the 21st ult. The loss was $500,000. —The Montenegrin army is to be reorganized and put in readiness for service at the shortest notice. —The subject of a submarine cable to Honolulu is under consideration by capitalists of San Francisco. —A fire in Vancouver, W. T., June 22, destroyed four acres of buildings in the business part of the town. —The Sultan of Turkey has contributed $1,000 in Turkish money for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers. —A cyclone passed through Albany, Mo., June 20, demolishing dwellings, school-houses, and other property. —Several earthquake shocks were experienced throughout the Sacramento Valley on the night of the 20th ult. —A syndicate representing $4,500,000 has been formed to supply American meat at low prices to the English markets. —Natural gas has been discovered in Milwaukee, Wis. It is said to possess the properties of the Pennsylvania gas. —Twenty-five girls in a grammar school in Brooklyn, New York, have been dismissed in disgrace for smoking cigarettes. —Prince Louis Napoleon has resigned his commission in the Italian army at the request of his father, Prince Jerome. —Another immense transfer of mineral lands in New Mexico has just been made. The amount involved is $200,000,000. —A bill providing for the citizenship of children born in France of foreign parents passed the Chamber of Deputies June 19. —Oliver Woodhouse, the present postmaster at Hartford, Conn., has held that position uninterruptedly for the past forty years. —General Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has been stricken with paralysis. At last accounts his death was momentarily expected. —Mexico has successfully concluded the negotiation of a commercial treaty with Japan, which will greatly extend her foreign relations. —Twenty-five thousand tons of sugar were recently bought in Cuba, by a Boston firm. This is the largest single purchase of sugar ever made, the transaction involving $2,500,000. —Official returns from the recent election in Pennsylvania show that the prohibition amendment has been defeated by nearly 190,000 majority. —The Russian army is being provided with breech-loading rifles which will carry a distance of 6,000 feet. Noiseless powder is also to be used in the future. —A destructive wind-storm swept over Peru, Ind., the afternoon of June 18. Trees, fences, and telegraph wires were leveled to the ground, and many dwellings were injured. —Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-President Hayes, was prostrated by a stroke of apoplexy the 21st ult. Paralysis ensued, and at last accounts not much hope was given for her recovery. —A company backed by English capitalists is making arrangements to establish large iron and steel works at Vallejo, Cal. The total capital to be employed will aggregate $2,000,000. —The steamship Parthia recently made the voyage from Yokohama to Victoria, B. C., in less than thirteen days. This is the fastest time ever made in steamship travel across the Pacific. —The constitutional prohibition amendment of Rhode Island was repealed on the 20th ult., by 18,596 majority. This constitutes more than three-fifths of the total vote necessary to carry the amendment. —Uniontown, Kan., was swept away by a flood the night of the 16th ult. Several lives were lost and great havoc was done to growing crops. The storm swept over other portions of the State also, doing considerable damage. —The Chamber of Deputies is considering the feasibility of negotiating a Government loan of fifty million francs for naval improvements. It is proposed to bring the naval strength of France up to the proper standpoint. —It is said that nearly $5,000,000 has been subscribed to build a railroad between the lower forks of the Congo River and Stanley Pool, in Africa. The object is to open up the country to civilization and to get rid of the slave trade. —The Prince of Wales is taking the lead in the movement to commemorate the labors of Father Damien, the leper martyr, by the erection of a monument over his grave at Molokai, Hawaii. A leper ward is also to be established in the Hospital for Skin Diseases at London. —Recent dispatches state that England will take no steps at present to protect British sealers in the Behring Sea, but will secure the co-operation of other maritime powers to dispute the claim of the United States to the right to close the sea. The matter will probably be settled by arbitration. —General Guzman Blanco, who for the past nineteen years has governed Venezuela, S. A., with an absolute despotism almost equal to that of Russia, was deposed by a peaceful revolution while he was absent in Paris recently. It is not believed that he will be able to recover control of the Government. —A mortgage for $150,000,000, covering all the property owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company, excepting lands, has been filed with the Secretary of State at Milwaukee, Wis., in favor of the United States Trust Company of New York City. The object is to secure a lower rate of interest. —Advices from British Columbia report much excitement over the presence of a Russian man-of-war off the coast, whose officers have been studying the defensive points of the province, and taking notes as to the best points which could be made available for fortifications in the event of war between Russia and England. —Two French scientists who went to Australia a year ago for the purpose of testing M. Pasteur's discovery of inoculation for exterminating the rabbit pest of that country have recently returned, bringing bitter complaints of their treatment by the Australian authorities. An inquiry into the circumstances will be made by the French ambassador in London. —News was received at Helena, Montana, of the discovery, on June 20, of the bodies of a camping party numbering five persons who had been found butchered about one hundred and fifty miles north of that place. A man named Wilber, who was arrested on suspicion of having done the deed, committed suicide in his cell the following night. The victims were from Helena. —Le Caron, the British spy, has been summarily dismissed from the Grand Army of the Republic on account of discoveries growing out of his testimony in the Parnell case. Circumstances point to the fact that he has not only been acting as a spy against the Irish revolutionists, but that he also joined the United States Army and the Grand Army of the Republic for the purpose of giving information to the British Government. The Unrighteous Shall Not Inherit
The Bible utters a comprehensive negation of exclusion when it declares that “the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Cor. 6:9. That kingdom is one of holiness, and “the unrighteous,” remaining such, can have no share in its honors and blessings. The kingdom itself will not change to suit their depravity. They must change or perish.—Independent. —During the past year, 158 students received instruction in the Congregational Theological Seminary in Chicago. —It is stated that the Methodist Episcopal Church South, appropriates $17,000 from the book concern profits for their conference laborers. —Hereafter, all the courses of instruction in the Hartford (Conn.) Theological Seminary will be open to women on the same terms as to men. —The Young Men's Christian Association in America owns property to the value of $8,451,012. The current expenses of the association last year were $1,449,669. —The Chicago Baptists are working earnestly to raise the $350,000 necessary to secure the $1,500,000 from Mr. Rockafeller, for the founding of a denominational university in that city. —A letter to the London Anti-slavery Society says that the Mahdists have made Western Abyssinia a desert. Thousands of Christians have been made slaves, and many others killed. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed. We do not mean that a National Sunday Law is now ready, but that a treatise under this name, prepared by Alonzo T. Jones, is now ready for circulation. This pamphlet contains the arguments in behalf of the rights of American citizens, and in opposition to the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, which Mr. Jones presented before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, December 13, 1888. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts has pronounced the report as published "MIGHTY INTERESTING READING,"
And Mr. Jones's comments will make it more so. His argument is enlarged to what it would have been without Senator Blair's interruptions, objections, and counter-arguments, and is accompanied with answers to all of his objections and counter-arguments. As the Sunday question is now a living issue, this treatise will be interesting to all classes, especially legislators, lawyers, judges and other public men. The argument is Based on Scripture and History, Constitution and Law,
Showing the limits of the civil power, the unconstitutionality of the Sunday Bill, an analysis of the Sunday laws and other religious legislation of the different States, the Sunday-law movement of the fourth century, the Sunday-law movement of the nineteenth century, the methods used in securing indorsements to the petition for the Blair Bill, and the workings of such Sunday laws as are proposed for the United States. Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.; 43 Bond St., New York.
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Christian Influence in the Home and the Church.
An Impressive Dream.
Daily Study of the Bible Necessary.
Education of Workers.
Unholy Ambition.
"The Appearance of Evil."
Love to the Erring.
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God's Love for Sinners.
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Erroneous Ideas of Confession.
God's Presence a Reality.
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Unfounded Reports.
A Miracle Counterfeited.
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The Impending Conflict.
The American Sentinel and Its Mission.
Workers in the Cause.
The Inestimable Gift.
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The Word Made Flesh.
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Messages of the Books, " " 1 "..... 3.50
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pretation, } " " 1 "..... 3.50
Syriac New Testament, cloth ............................. 2.50
Hours with the Bible, Geikie, 6 vols. in 3, cl... 4.50
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100,000 Synonyms and Antonyms, cloth........ 1.00
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By Editor
It will be remembered by the readers of this paper that some time since Dr. James Woodrow was very properly condemned by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South for teaching evolution. The Presbytery of Charleston, not satisfied with the decision of the highest tribunal of the church, proceeded still further, and forbade its ministers, ruling elders, and deacons to contend in public against the decision of the assembly. This action the Synod of South Carolina justly condemned as unconstitutional, irregular, and unwise, declaring that the action of the presbytery imposed an unwarranted restraint upon the rights and freedom of expression of opinion; but at its recent session the General Assembly took up the matter and passed a resolution by a vote of 113 yeas to 31 noes disapproving the action of the synod and upholding the presbytery. The Presbyterian Church South should choose a Pope and be done with it.